The two stars Franck Ribery and Arjen Robben of the few
players from Bayern Munich football who participated in the exercises on Sunday
in a time when others are licking their wounds in the wake of a rare defeat for
the Bavarian club.
And Bayern subjected to a friendly defeat at the hands of
Red Bull Salzburg, the Austrian league leader on Saturday with three straight
goals, which showed that the club crowned five titles in 2013, which the team
is not invincible.
The Spanish coach Pep Guardiola to Bayern Munich said
"It was a good lesson for us before the start of the second half of the
Bundesliga, the competitor was best, many teams are better if you did not play
well."
Bayern Coincided defeat in front of Red Bull with a birthday
Guardiola forty-third in the last test for the team before Bundesliga resuming
activity next Friday, when they face the defending champions away to Borussia
Monchengladbach, which are third.
Guardiola refused to explain the reason for this defeat and
this lackluster performance to the absence of Ribery and Robben, Philipp Lahm
and Bastian Schweinsteiger, in the time in which Franz Beckenbauer commented,
honorary president of the club that he "we could never offer ourselves in
this way."
It was possible to lose Bayern greater number of goals in
front of Hamas Salzburg, not for the intervention of the crossbar and the
failure to kick penalty, at a time when the way Guardiola to play with three
defenders are Javi Martinez and Dante and Jerome Boateng did not work.
This is the third defeat only for Bayern since the Guardiola
as coach of the team last summer, replacing Jupp Heynckes, after the team lost
at the hands of Borussia Dortmund in the Super Cup German and also lost to
Manchester City in the last match of the group stage of the Champions League.
Matthias Sammer sporting director of the Bavarian warned
that the defeat represents an alarm bell and asked the players to the need to
defend team jersey with all their strength, but at the same time pointed out
that his team offers everything he could when needed.
Bayern had not been subjected to any defeat all 41 games in
the Bundesliga, since his defeat at the hands of Bayer Leverkusen in October
2012, it also reached the quarter-finals of the German Cup and the knockout
round of the Champions League.
Bayern leads the Bundesliga table, seven points in front of
the nearest followers Leverkusen, and remaining a game in hand, while
outperform the Bavarian club 11 points behind and in front of Monchengladbach
12 points in front of Dortmund.
Boateng confirmed that his team will assess the defeat to
Salzburg in order to prepare for the upcoming match against Monchengladbach.
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